GRE Word List
CALLUS
a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark
The meaning of the word callus is a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |